"And to him, his image exemplifies what he believes to be our society’s sexual appetite. 'My wish didn’t come true that I would inspire people to the point where I see hundreds of Peter Berlins running around on the street. I don’t see one,' he says. In Berlin’s sexual utopia, we wouldn’t be 'desensitized' and 'robotic' but rather libidinous animals in tight white pants. When he looks at People’s 'Sexiest Man Alive,' he finds 'nothing hot about it,' he exclaims.... 'Who is a sex symbol for me?' he asks. 'There is none. There is only Peter Berlin … At one point I said to myself, "My God, I wish I would look like that," to my own picture.' He’d prefer that all of us believe the same about our own self-images, in a world of blatant sexuality."
From "Peter Berlin, Retired Gay Porn Star and Selfie Pioneer, Thinks You Work Too Much" (New York Magazine).
Here's his book "Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual."
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Yuch.
His picture makes me ponder what the Kardashians will look like when they're in their mid-70s.
It's the Brigitte Bardot syndrome. If you genuinely hit THE peak of beauty, you can completely let go as you age. She did. He did. If you're aging better, tending to your decline carefully, you don't know how they feel because you never stood on the mountaintop.
From that article: Tomorrow don’t do what you are planning to do. Just don’t. That’s all you have to do.
And I'm thinking: But there's a turkey in the fridge!!
Life isn't all pleasure. Someone has to work in the Flavored Petroleum Jelly factory for the evangelical perverts to have fun.
Selfie-ish, aptly named.
The libidinous episodes of my life only occurred when the right woman mysteriously appeared.
I have no idea how to make that happen. But, it did happen a few times in my life.
How low some of America have fallen.
Regarding pornography (from Greek...'tales of harlots').
Western Civilization has a got a real problem. Its name is porn. I am not innocent and most men reading this right now aren't either. The issue is that over the last 30 years it has A) gradually been normalized and B) it has creeped into daily affairs, visual or otherwise, to such an extent as to make a person quite numb to what used to be prurient.
If you are a heterosexual male looking at another dude's dick penetrating a beautiful woman that you would otherwise want to have sex with yourself you're not doing yourself any favors. Doing it multiple times over and over again can create a sense of familiarity that can disassociate your proclivities and make you start focusing on the dick, not the vagina of the woman you originally wanted to have sex with.
This is very important. Porn is not real life. Never has been. Never will be. What heterosexual men and women do behind closed doors is beautiful but it can also be awkward at times and real life doesn't have cut-scenes or editors. Thank god for that.
Recently I've begun to think deeply about pornography's larger effects on the culture at large and children - who are consuming and have access to humongous quantities of it before they're even 10 years old.
In the current photo he looks a lot like Tom Steyer. Has anybody ever seen the two of them in the same place?
I was once so handsome all the women on my block would come out to watch me walk down the street - but my dick was still never as important to my identity as it is to gay dudes.
They boggle the mind.
@Lucid-Ideas
That's one side of porn. In fact, it's one side of sex. The trashy, crappy, bitter and ugly is part of humans. There are ways in which this is one of the most interesting things about humans.
Porn has also shown the light on what was previously (mostly) hidden human behavior and thought, and that isn't going away. We all know the things revealed by porn.
Humans are going to (and already have) changed their behavior and expectations, and porn was the driving force.
What's the way to get rid of the trashy, crappy side of human sex? Why would you want to get rid of it?
This made me follow the teaser and look up the People "Sexiest Man Alive." Good god - it's John freakin' Legend! And all this time I had been pretty sure that I understood what "sexy" meant.
Sounds like the late Seventies.
"He did. If you're aging better, tending to your decline carefully, you don't know how they feel because you never stood on the mountaintop.”
A couple of times in my life I have walked into familiar situations where there were women around, but in those cases with a notably handsome man with me for some reason or other. The difference is unbelievable.
when we abandoned the principles that built this country, we plunged into a sewer, from Leviticus to romans and thessalonians, the path is clear,
""My God, I wish I would look like that," to my own picture.'"
And progs accuse Trump of narcissism.
"MSNBC was on"
Cuz for progs, nothing is as important as to have their political self-image mirrored back to them.
"But it was always sex on his very particular terms — sex as much as anything as the image of sexiness, stoking desire of himself by others. He actually didn’t have all that much sex in the way most people think about sex"
Now I'm confused: we're supposed to be obsessed with sex all the time but not actually get to enjoy it "in the way most people think about sex"? Could this gay prog utopia be actually rather, umm, boring?
I’ve thought for years? A couple of decades? The Left is nothing more than its about sex, I want what I want (there is no age limit) when I want, how I want with no responsibility or repercussions.
Just read their articles, listen to their conversations, etc.
It has been a relentless pushing with the 60s boomers my entire life.
This is one reason why Christianity must be obliterated.
The looked and still look the other way on Clinton.
Open borders facilitates this.
The Brits hid Jimmy Savile. And more than once has the EU been implicated.
What is State hiding?
@shouting Thomas
1) You're right. It isn't going away. That's not what I want.
2) I believe in freedom of speech and choice, and the power of adults to make decisions for themselves. That includes pornography. But like local and Federal law states, "I know it when I see it". We all do.
3) I was recently in Sao Paulo (my gf is Brazilian) and young girls - as young as 12 - are wearing shirts that effectively advertise their availability for anal sex. I want the ability to have things entertaining to adults and for our enjoyment but THAT is too much. Call me a prude (I'm only 38) but that's a problem for me. I will be having children soon and I don't want them ensconced in that.
Human sexuality is - like Kinsey said - the ultimate 'thing'. Everything you see today, from roads, to agriculture, to weapons exist because a long time ago some guy really wanted for fuck this hot chick. What's even funnier is in the overall scheme of things how little it matters. 15 minutes vs. a whole 24 hour day of other stuff that is infinitely more important.
I wish they would stop using sex so much to sell shit. I know it sells. Just keep it away from kids.
@Lucid:
Yes, the effects of porn are worth thinking about, but--
"make you start focusing on the dick, not the vagina of the woman you originally wanted to have sex with"
Really? Heterosexual men do this? People have, umm, studied this?
And if I catch your train of thought, the downside of porn is that it makes more men gayish?
I was gonna say something like ‘being a sex symbol is not all fun and games’ but Crack already beat me to it...
Worshiping one's self is Hell, it just takes a while to realize it.
Wow. Looks like even titus has a soul mate.
If humanity were the oceans, (in all their bounty and vastness™), people like this guy would bring to mind the froth that briefly washes up on the beach.
If I were having children now, they would not have access to smartphones, IPads, or any other unsupervised computer us. Children need to run around outside, and read when they're not doing that or something else useful. Fortunately it was not an issue when my daughter was little.
I know that doesn't solve the problem of what happens at their friends' houses, but we have to do what we can.
One thing they need to learn is that just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should do it.
ICK !
I have known, in person, a woman who was as beautiful as any woman I have ever seen in a photograph, but I have never seen a man in person who looked as good as Peter Berlin looks in those photographs.
The old photos of him, I mean. Obviously. He's quite old now and he looks his age. Good for him.
If I were having children now, they would not have access to smartphones, IPads, or any other unsupervised computer us. Children need to run around outside,
There is some pretty good research showing that this is why the Chinese have such a high incidence of Myopia. The kids in China never go outside.
In Australia, where ethnic Chinese kids play out side more, the incidence of myopia is half of that in China or Singapore.
I would like to see some research on American kids entering the military. The incidence of myopia seems higher than in WWII.
Normal kids play outside and their eyes focus on distant objects more. That was true 70 years ago. I wonder about the kids now.
His body was nice but his face was much too feminine-looking for my taste.
@Sebastian
"People have, umm, studied this?"
In fact they have. And no, it doesn't make men 'gayish', but it does make them addicted to the 'stimulus' they're digesting.
People make this too complicated because they have to. Imagine it like this. You are a taco eater. Over several years you have been eating tacos repeatedly at a taco stand that makes great tacos. One day you arrive for you daily helping of 2 tacos but they've decided that all tacos shall now be made in 'burrito' form. Um. Ok. I guess that will do. You still love the taco stand. Problem is they're not making tacos now. They make burritos. You know what they just pulled. Go to another taco stand. Don't eat burritors at the taco stand. They're not tacos you doofus.
I hope that explains it.
"In fact they have."
So studies prove that porn makes heterosexual men focus on the dick?
Show me. Links please.
Put your hands together for the Berlin Fat Mouse Inbred line!
You are a taco eater.
That's why God made pussies look like tacos.
I think your thesis is a bunch of poopy-do except maybe for the fact that men normally don't see their own dicks during PIV sex, as opposed to many naughty videos.
I knew Ann hated men in shorts, so it makes sense she'd post about a man who made his living wearing no shorts.
It is interesting how people, straight ones anyway, can be poor judges of beauty in their own sex. My late wife thought Sharon Stone was very definitely not pretty. My current one and her daughters think Robin Tunney is ugly. So I accept I am missing something when I am dumbstruck at AA's comments on PB's pulchritude. He has of course a good build otherwise I have known personally numerous men I would call more attractive.
Small dick too a google picture search reveals.
Berlin looks like Owen Wilson's "Hansel" from Zoolander.
I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.
Ughs all around.
7 BILLION people on the planet and THIS degenerate fag gets a write-up in the New Yorker.
Because of course.
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